Pietro Frugoni

Pietro Frugoni (21 January 1851-10 July 1940) was a General of the Royal Italian Army during World War I.

Biography
Pietro Frugoni was born in Brescia, Italy in 1851, and he graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Turin in 1870 with the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Italian Army. He became a colonel in 1893, a Major-General in 1900, and a Lieutenant-General in 1906, and he commanded the I Special Corps in Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya, winning the Battle of Zanzur in 1912. During World War I, he assumed command of the Italian 2nd Army on the Isonzo front, and he took command of the Italian 5th Army during the Austro-Hungarian Trentino Offensive of 1916. In June, General Luigi Cadorna dismissed Frugoni, who went into the reserves; he was never recalled by Cadorna's successor Armando Diaz, and he criticized Cadorna in his memoirs. He died in 1940.